The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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went to Chicago to serve the papers on Mrs.
| Rose, and was surprised to learn that she
! secured divorce over year ago WITHOUT the
! knowledge of her husband and had again mar
| ried.
! SOLITARY HIGHwAYMAN held up stage
coach near Aqua Fria, Ari., the other day,
robbed the driver and the only male passenger,
and a few minutes later robbed mine Superln-
| tendent, who was driving with his wife. The
| brigand was gallant, and robbed none OF the
women.
AssEGAI throwing is TO be the popular amuse-
ment in England next spring according to the
| Court Journal. 1t is called 'arrow-throwing. "
| for short, and is said to have been introduced
| by persons returning from trips to Zululand
and other places where it is practlced by the
| natives.
BUZZ SAW broke while running at high rate
of speed in Corvellis, Ore and piece striking
| William Buchanan in the arm just below the
shoulder. cut it off so quickly and easily that he
| didn't know he was hurt until he saw his arm
| lying at his feet. Then he clasped the bleeding
| stump and ran to neigbborS house.
The Natchez Democrat says that pair of
shoes were built for a man who lives in Cata-
houla parish, Louisiana, which, if they were to
| be numbered would be eighteen. 1t required
| the best part of a calf skin for each one, and
| just twice as much of other material as Is nee
essary to make pair of ordinary shoes
THE other day five leading Indians of the Ceur
d'Alene tribe left Spokane for their reserva'
ton with the latest improved threshing
machine and a handsome buggy. Each has
| seventy acres of grain, which by this Tune Is
| harvested. and they were well dressed and drove
well-fed ponies. 1t is said that most OF the
| tribe are thus prosperous
| KANGAROO LEATHER has become so decidedly
popular for shoes that 200 skins are received
and tanned in Newark alone each week. But
| hot anuf - fha II
| all over the world from the Jersey tanneries.
One result is that kangaroo hunters in Australia
| are making money. They get zoe. a pound for
skins, and some of them clear from 5000 to
| $1,000 year.
MARIE RozE addressed the pupils at the Royal
Academy of Music at Liverpool, a few days ago,
after the Mayor had presented certificates to
| those who had passed the examination for en-
trance, and said that no one better than an ar
| fist knew the value of early training, and that
in looking into the past of her life she recalled
| with the greatest gratitude the efforts or those
| who first moulded her voice.
THE 12year-old son of Charles Shong, of
Augusta, Wis, who was injured by being thrown
| from a carriage against barb-wire fence, will
be dsfgured for life by his injuries. His mouth
was cut from ear to ear, part of his tongue
| torn off and left hanging to a barb, and cash
| cut from the mouth across the throat, within a
| quarter of an inch of the jugular vein. His
arms and body were also badly cut.
! Miss MARCHANT, who is in Ireland in behalf of
a work for the assistance of Irish families Of
the upper class who have fallen into poverty
| through the disturbed state of the country,
| writes to England that during the past sixteen
months she has had to secure homes for thirty
| nine children of from to IA years of age, be-
| sides relieving many cases of sickness and
| restitution, and providing many with the means
| of supporting themselves by needle work
CATHERINE BUNs1N, aged sixty-nine was SEN
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| seven years penal servtude for stealing pair
of drawers. The prisoner, on hearing the SEN
| tence. dropped like person shot, and was ear
| red out by two wardens. man named Dillay.
sentenced to five years penal servitude for
| fraudulently obtaining a shilling under the pre-
| tense that it was wanted for charitable
| object.
THE schooner NJ. A. Boston recently brought
| to Gloucester from La Have banks a most pecu-
| liar sea monster, unlike anything ever seen by
| the oldest fisherman there. 1t was four feet
| long and five inches thick; had one dorsal fin
| eXteI ding the whole length of its back and q
| triangular-shaped head, the lower jaw extend
| ing two inches beyond the upper. Both jaws
| are armed with very sharp teeth. The upper
| Jaw had three lo1g prongs at the extreme tip.
| This queer fish will be sent to the Smithsonian
! Institute.
IL the valleys of California grows a tall,
| slenderstemmed liliaceous plant with purple
and white flower which played an important
part in the economy of the Spanish population
| and is still more or less used by the country
people 1t is the well known amole soap
plant 1t rises from subterranean bulb which
| is egg-shaped in form, two or three inches in
| diameter and enveloped in thick coating of
| black. matted, hairlke f1breS. This bulb has
the detergent properties of soap cleaning the
| hands or clothing quite as well and much more
| pleasantly than the coarser kinds of soap.
A YOUNG Bostonian has written to several
prominent generals asking how they felt in
their first battles. Gen. Sherman says that such
| questions are hard to answer, Admiral Porter
| says his first battle occurred when he II
| years of age and that he did not feel much
| afraid. Gen. Pleasonton remarks that his first
| battle was in Mexico in 1916, and that he felt
| the sooner the enemy was thrashed the better
| it would be; while Gen. AVerell says that the
| battle of Bull Rum 1861, was his first, and that
| when he the enemy he thought that great
| and useless crime was about TO be committed.
Ii CONGRESS show no greater liberality in
| spending than the departments have shown in
asking the surplus will not be greatly dimin-
ished. The estimates of all the departments, if
| granted without a penny of pruning, will only
exceed by trine less than ST., 100000 the ex-
| penditures of last year. This includes an in
| crease of $22.0N,000 asked for by the War De-
| partment, showing that the estimates for some
| OF the other departments are considerably less
| than last year. About S3.000000 of the excess
| asked for by the War Department is for coast
| defenseS The balance of the So, 000, 900 of
| proposed increase is due to the estimates for
| river aud harbor improvements 1t is evident
that the surplus problem will not be solved
| without radical reduction of the revenues
WHEN Englishmen rule in visiting New
York are accustomed to speaking In terms of
greater or less sarcasm regarding America, it
isn't altogether unpleasant now and then to
find the country difficult to get away from A
couple OF months ago Capt. C. A. Thmm, of the
Second London Rifles landed in New York, in
tending to remain only week or two. From
week to week he postponed his departure but
his many American friends made life so pleas
ant for him that he couldn't get away. Capt.
| Thimm is one of the very few English gentle
men who have made it point in London to go
out Of their way to extend great attentions to
| Americans abroad and accordingly the Cap
tans reputation here has spread to an extent
| that has led to the heaping of social honors
upon him in New York, He returns to England
| very deeply impressed with the hospitality and
| the general greatness of the New World, and
anxious to get back again at an early date
A Horned Hen that Weighs $50
| Pounds.